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RE: hardware accelerated OpenGL & Cygwin-XFree ?
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at ssiddiqi dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 19:16:41 -0500
- Subject: RE: hardware accelerated OpenGL & Cygwin-XFree ?
- Reply-to: <ssiddiqi at ssiddiqi dot com>
You are welcome to contribute an OpenGL driver which would be hardware
accelerated on Windows using wGL.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
> owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Rolf Schneider
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 5:56 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: hardware accelerated OpenGL & Cygwin-XFree ?
>
>
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to migrate a fairly complex application from IRIX/Linux to
> bloody "windows" using Cygwin-XFree. My app. makes extensive use of
> OpenGL in several different windows. I assume OpenGL in Cygwin-XFree
> means "MESA". Unfortunately, a software implementation of OpenGL isn't
> fast enough to drive my application.
>
> Hmm, would it be possible to configure XFree, so that Window's OpenGl
> libs/drivers are being used instead of MESA? Since Window's OpenGL
> drivers will almost certianly be hardware accelerated, my application
> would become very fast...
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Rolf